{"id":231443,"date":"2018-03-13T23:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=231443"},"modified":"2018-03-13T23:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:01:58","slug":"meet-south-africas-car-of-the-year-winner-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/231443\/meet-south-africas-car-of-the-year-winner-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet South Africa&#8217;s car of the year winner for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 WesBank SA Car of the Year was revealed at a gala event in Gauteng on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The competition comprised 10 finalists, following a vote by members of the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ), which had previously identified\u00a021 semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Porsche Panamera<\/strong> was announced as the overall winner, beating the <strong>Volvo S90<\/strong> into second place, while the <strong>Alfa Romeo<\/strong> Giulia placed third.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 COTY jury put the finalists through structured testing procedures at the end of January 2018, before scoring each finalist against its direct class competitors on aspects that included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affordability<\/li>\n<li>Cabin Styling, Layout, and Ergonomics<\/li>\n<li>Engine Performance and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Engineering Integrity and Build Quality<\/li>\n<li>Exterior Design<\/li>\n<li>Overall Excellence<\/li>\n<li>Ride Quality<\/li>\n<li>Steering and Handling<\/li>\n<li>New Technology<\/li>\n<li>Transmission Performance<\/li>\n<li>Value for Money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0Opel Astra<\/strong>\u00a0was crowned the 2017 winner, with the\u00a0<strong>Audi A4<\/strong>\u00a0placing second, and the\u00a0<strong>Volkswagen Passat<\/strong>\u00a0third.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231445\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Panamera-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/199728\/these-are-the-10-south-african-car-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These are the 10 South African car of the year finalists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 WesBank SA Car of the Year was revealed at a gala event in Gauteng on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6619],"class_list":["post-231443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-wesbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231451,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231443\/revisions\/231451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}